Saturday, January 30, 2010

For Christmas Sydney got a cute little stoller walker. She is having a blast walking around holding on to that thing. Maybe just maybe she will start walking before a year. Noah did not start walking till he was about 17 months.

So I have never made a diaper cake before, but I had gotten one at Sydney's baby shower and thought it was so fun....so I just had to try it. I had 2 boy baby gifts I had to do, so I headed out to Target because they have super cute generic blue and green bubble diapers. How perfect they were for diaper cake making.

If you have never made a diaper cake before they are pretty easy. The first cake I made I used about 60 diapers (the second one was less because I ran out and had to improvise). You roll each diaper up tightly and smack a piece of tape on it. I put about 5-6 together to make a bundle and taped all around the outside of that. Then I added a ring of diapers around that bundle and taped it all secure, and then another ring of diapers with tape around it. That makes up the bottom tier of the cake. So for the next tier you would start again with a bundle of about 5-6 and then make one ring of diaper around that. And for the top tier you make one more 5-6 diaper bundle. You use a wide ribbon around each cake tier to hide the tape. I used a wooden dowl down the center to keep the tiers together. I added a little stuffed toy as a cake topper. I also added some pacifiers and pacifier clips, but you can put whatever you want on it to decorate. It look me less then an hour to do it, so it was pretty easy.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

I again am trying to get caught up on the old blog...it is just so much easier to post on Facebook. But the main reason I do this blog is to be a journal for me, so I need to touch on some of the highlights.

Christmas: Of course I took a lot more pictures then this...but lets just say I am blog lazy. This year we decided to start the tradition of the Advent calendars. The kids really enjoyed getting a piece of chocolate each night.

Sydney first time in the snow. Could there be a cuter little snow baby??? Never.

Shortly after the new year, Kevin had to go to Disney World for work. Since we had just gotten home from there just 2 months ago, we decided not to take the whole family. Kev and I did want to take an anniversary trip because we will be married for 10 years this month, so instead of the cruise we thought we would take, we went back to Disney, not ideal but we got a little break from the kids and his work paid for most of it, so it worked out well. We brought Sydney with us because she was free to fly, she hung out with me while Kevin was working and then she went to stay with my friend Kami, who lives in Orlando. Kami was so great and worked with our last minute schedule changes and Sydney got a lot of attention, so thanks Kami.

We don't normally do the princess thing, but this trip Sydney got to meet Aurora, Cinderella, and Belle. Also one day while Kevin was working Sydney and I went to a character meal at our hotel.

Also, I have decided to do Body for Life again...it is really hard to do a diet the second time. I also have not exercised in forever (1 1/2 years, because of pregnancy and then lyme disease, I know it is excuses, but good ones, right???), so getting back to that is...painful. I am trying to decide what I want to do as far a cardio goes. I tried a spin class this morn and it killed me (and I don't mean the workout). I am going to try a Zumba class, but most likely I will start going to TaeBo classes at 5:45 in the morn, doesn't that sound fun, o-well, I can get my work out in before Kev goes to work.

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My name is Audrey. My husband Kevin and I live in Utah with our 4 kiddos Tanner(8), Isaac (6), Noah (3) and Sydney (1). I do a little catering for fun and occasionally money. I love planning birthday parties for my kids, reading a good book and watching lots and lots of tv.